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Rutland / Re: BURTON John of Oakham Rutland
« on: Tuesday 25 November 25 20:58 GMT (UK) »
Thank you so much for your post. It is really good to hear from someone else with the same questions about another son of John Burton and Ann Barnett. William Burton baptised 30 Sept 1787 at Oakham is an older brother of Andrew baptised at Oakham on 10 Sept 1790. William is my 3x great grandfather which I think makes your husband and I fourth cousins once removed.
It is interesting that your mother-in-law was told by her grandmother that she was descended from a very wealthy family in Rutland. My mother was told by her mother (who was a Burton) that there was blue blood in the family and that a coachman had apparently run away with a girl from a well-to-do family. I decided in the end that this was a cover story for the fact that my great grandmother’s parents weren’t actually married and then didn’t give it any further thought!
Looking at Rev Bartin Burton’s Will, he left £400 each to his three younger children, John, Cornelius and Mary. According to the Bank of England Inflation Calculator £400 would be worth £63,678.71 today. This again does not tie in with Bartin having a son who worked a labourer. I have tried to find out more information about Bartin’s son John but so far nothing has come to light except the Burton/Barnett marriage and also some family trees saying that John died in India but I don’t know where that information originally comes from.
I have done an DNA test and the results are on Ancestry. I will send you a private message with the details. It would be really good if we could find a definite known descendant of Bartin Burton who had also DNA tested to see if there were any shared matches. But as you say, if Augustin is John’s real father, then there could still be connections further back to the more illustrious part of the family.
Who did Andrew marry? I have a possibly marriage for Andrew to a Mary Young on 9/2/1813 at Oakham. William married Alice Hill (from Braunston) on 7/11/1809 at Oakham and they had 10 children; I am descended from their oldest son William who was born in 1810 and in Leicester.
It is interesting that your mother-in-law was told by her grandmother that she was descended from a very wealthy family in Rutland. My mother was told by her mother (who was a Burton) that there was blue blood in the family and that a coachman had apparently run away with a girl from a well-to-do family. I decided in the end that this was a cover story for the fact that my great grandmother’s parents weren’t actually married and then didn’t give it any further thought!
Looking at Rev Bartin Burton’s Will, he left £400 each to his three younger children, John, Cornelius and Mary. According to the Bank of England Inflation Calculator £400 would be worth £63,678.71 today. This again does not tie in with Bartin having a son who worked a labourer. I have tried to find out more information about Bartin’s son John but so far nothing has come to light except the Burton/Barnett marriage and also some family trees saying that John died in India but I don’t know where that information originally comes from.
I have done an DNA test and the results are on Ancestry. I will send you a private message with the details. It would be really good if we could find a definite known descendant of Bartin Burton who had also DNA tested to see if there were any shared matches. But as you say, if Augustin is John’s real father, then there could still be connections further back to the more illustrious part of the family.
Who did Andrew marry? I have a possibly marriage for Andrew to a Mary Young on 9/2/1813 at Oakham. William married Alice Hill (from Braunston) on 7/11/1809 at Oakham and they had 10 children; I am descended from their oldest son William who was born in 1810 and in Leicester.